Yeah nah that makes sense. I’ve got a weather integration in Home Assistant and chose to add relatively accurate coordinates for the API calls. That at least was entirely under my control, whereas their implementation was “use it this way or not at all”, demanding location access or no weather.
I feel like they over engineered the heck out of ‘simplifying’ automations, to the point I stayed on Core v2025.8.3 for about 7 months. I disliked their menu changes and hate the big ol card that comes up on mobile when editing - much prefer the older style.
Try Fairphone. Ethically fantastic company, and they offer their phones with either Android or Murena /e/OS
>Downloads Niagara to minimalise my phone, reduce distractions
>Buys Pro, re-enables icons
Am I a heathen
Well it’s a good thing those two URIs can be easily blocked. Besides you can get the app from their Github page (sadly no F-droid repo as closed-source), and pay for Pro (if wanted) via Stripe instead of Google Play. I also had issues migrating Niagara off of Google once I’d connected the two, but an email correspondence with the lead dev Max Rumpf got the issue pleasantly and quickly resolved.
It’s likely the only reason for the privilege is to collect coords to send to the weather API. At least it’s optional, and there are alternative ways to see weather reports, just not on the home screen.
I tried accessing Google Photos via my phone to handle a couple of things I had active on that account from before. Little fuck refused to let me open the app unless it had unconditional access to all my media.
+1 for Niagara, plus even though you don’t have to, pro features can be purchased outside of Google Play.
It seems very common in the US to get these mailed by the supplier. This one seems to be a blueprint for National Grid, and is similar to a post from this house light show co. on Facebook
If you run your own AI and watch how long it takes, how much it runs up the resources for a few seconds, then you might get an idea of what it’s like hosting at least three copies of a multi-terabyte LLM, in memory, with much shorter response and a much bigger knowledge base (Gemini by Google), taking millions of prompts per minute. Then think of every company that’s hosting major public AI services.
Then remember that the only things good that come out of AI are natural language inference for voice commands and slightly improved developer processes.
Hosting it is just a reminder of the rapid environmental, ecological and cultural destruction that is the AI bubble.
In summary: Perhaps, if the hoster wants it for streamlining their dev process. Otherwise it can be replaced with a far more efficient standard algorithmic program, which is what we had before.
Word of mouth does some heavy lifting here I reckon
I knew it was possible
I almost got hardcore triggered because I thought it said “Iran triggered…” Well, shockingly we have China to thank; yeah their government commits atrocities against their people - slavery, culture erasure, global infestation of trash products, microplastics, viral diseases and all that - but they are somehow managing to net zero the insane emissions caused by the manufacturing that the rest of the world demands of them, and they spawned a suitable replacement to Tesla; BYD. And it’s been adopted massively, probably due to the widespread takeover of many countries’ domestic businesses and shipping ports but still my point is those countries are fucking everything up and convincing petrol heads that fossil fuel is still a thing, and China is singlehandedly standing as a stark reminder that that is not the case.
Ooh that’s an interesting stat! My most seeded movie is +1 (over 340 copies’ worth), and for shows It’s Always Sunny seasons take the top 3.
Bruh 65" is only good if you’re like 6m away - almost no homes are like that. <=42" is the only normal size for a normal home, and sacrificing no quality. I get preferences, but that size has nothing to do with practicality
Lol, such bs. When HDTVs were made ‘smart’, and then 3D, the only ones sold were 40"+ and £3,000+. Took about three years for that price to drop 90%. But this is garbage news, who still wants a television in this century? Pubs, community spaces and that’s about it. Monitors are significantly cheaper, with less bloat and software lock.
Yeah boii, I wanted to use someone’s concoction of Qwen3.5 and Claude, but it wasn’t compatible with Ollama for some reason. Link
Oh yeah, I too am not happy about the tech world calling this creation AI when it doesn’t mimic thinking for itself – it’s still just working on strict parameters under variable parameters, it’s just code, and as such performs pretty much every task poorly compared to humans*. ‘AI’ was supposed to be reserved for what I suppose is now AGI.
*Unless you pour massive money, resources, energy and labour into making a model that’s still as bad, but much faster and pretends to be an AGI
I use a humidity sensor, motion sensor and a helper that shows the change over a period of time. If the humidity raises fast (+2%/5m) and goes over a certain amount (unique, depending on your room’s climate) the bathroom automation changes tracks to hold the light at 100%, turn the extractor fan on, and well, how you stop the automation depends on you. I let it stay on for 15 minutes before waiting for motion. Small tips: For me the humidity triggers the automation within 15s-1m of showering, which is okay for me. Motion sensors typically use IR to see movement. If the room is too steamy it might struggle to see you. Also, it cannot penetrate glass. It must have a line of sight to you.
The best alt I think would be mmwave presence sensors, but they’re pricy and require a wired connection.
In my attempt to drive a wedge into the ideal of unconditional government faith:
I have deduced that there are five laws of society:
The state legal system is sometimes the absolute enemy of the people and morals, especially when combined with corporate law, and shouldn’t be treated like it’s unconditionally justice.